Hagley Digital Archives

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Booklet documenting the expansion of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company's manufacturing facilities during the post-World War II period. Includes information and images related to the following projects: expansion of the Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware; construction of a nylon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee; construction of the May Orlon plant in Camden, South Carolina; expansion of a neoprene plant in Louisville, Kentucky; construction of a chemicals plant in Victoria, Texas; construction of the Sabine River Works chemicals plant in Orange, Texas; construction of the Washington Works chemicals and plastics plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia; construction of the Houston Works agricultural chemicals plant in La Porte, Texas; construction of the James River Works sulfuric acid plant in Richmond, Virginia; construction of a formaldehyde plant in Toledo, Ohio; expansion of the Martinsville, Virginia nylon plant; expansion of the Seaford, Delaware nylon plant; expansion of a chemicals plant in Niagara Falls, New York; expansion of the Waynesboro, Virginia acetate rayon plant; expansion of the Edge Moor pigments plant in Wilmington, Delaware; expansion of the Clinton, Iowa cellophane plant; expansion of the Deepwater Plant at Deepwater Point, New Jersey; expansion of the South San Francisco paint plant; expansion of the Belle, West Virginia chemicals plant; expansion of the nitrocellulose unit at the Carney's Point Works in Carney's Point, New Jersey. Item 20 of 23 from DuPont Plant Histories scrapbook.